Who discovered the uranium?

Hi Chandan, Uranium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, in the mineral pitchblende (primarily a mix of uranium oxides) in 1789. Although Klaproth, as well as the rest of the scientific community, believed that the substance he extracted from pitchblende was pure uranium, it was actually uranium dioxide (UO2).

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Hi Chandan, Uranium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who named the new element after the planet Uranus.

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